Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, front right, shakes hands with a boy during a visit to the Vidigal slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Jan. 9. Boehner toured a Rio de Janeiro shantytown that has recently been taken over from drug traffickers by police. Boehner is led a seven-member congressional delegation to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
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published Monday, January 16th, 2012
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WASHINGTON — When last seen in Washington, House Republicans were furious with their own leader, Speaker John Boehner, and angry with their Senate Republican brethren over how the showdown over the Social Security tax cut turned into a year-end political debacle.
